Secure the Future with a Career in Vulnerability Management and Remediation
About the Role
The Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team at Amazon is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Sydney, Australia location. This critical role will involve discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.
In this position, you will be responsible for:
* Analysing public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code
* Deeply understanding and assessing the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications
* Investigating and triaging vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon
* Supporting response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner
* Engineering high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms
* Designing and implementing automation, tools, and workflows to enhance operations capabilities
Key Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
* Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP
* 5 years security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security and developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java
* 5 years experience improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across a diverse technical ecosystem
* Experience with AWS products and services
* Experience with any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security
* 5+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .NET, C++, or similar object-oriented language experience
Acknowledgement of Country
Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Inclusive Culture
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.